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  Classic Exchange Admin Center (EAC) Retirement Announcement MC283874 · HCS COMPANY MICROSOFT SERVICES B.V. In MC252053 (April 2021), we announced the general availability of the new Exchange admin center (EAC). The new EAC offers a faster, more secure, and more intelligent modern admin experience than the classic EAC and is helping admins work more efficiently. With the new EAC capable of assuming this responsibility and more, today we are at the next stage of our journey, and we are announcing the retirement of the classic EAC that will be fully retired on September 1, 2022. This will be carried out in phases as we move forward. The initial phase will be moving the features under Protection to the Microsoft 365 Defender portal. Key Points: Major: Retirement Timing: October 15, 2021 – Move Protection and Advanced Threat features to the Microsoft 365 Defender portal September 1, 2022 – Classic EAC will be retired How this affects your organization: In the initial phase, the fo...

Message center announcements, August 30-September 5, 2021 HCS COMPANY MICROSOFT SERVICES B.V. Major updates Microsoft Teams: Enable Teams users to purchase app subscriptions through the Teams app store MC282989 | September 3 - At Build 2021 we announced the ability for Teams users to purchase third-party app subscriptions directly from the Teams app store. From within the store, users can view subscription plans offered and go through the checkout process to pay with a credit card. View more (Updated) Microsoft Lists: Sync your lists for improved performance and offline access MC261538 | September 3 - Updated September 03, 2021: We have updated the content below to provide additional clarity. Thank you for your feedback. Lists sync lets you work on your lists offline, improves performance on all kinds of networks, and helps alleviate list throttling. Common operations on lists, such as changing list views, sorting, filtering, and grouping will happen locally and finish quickly even o...

Message center announcements, August 23-29, 2021 HCS COMPANY MICROSOFT SERVICES B.V. Major updates Retirement of (Azure AD) Graph and license assignment operations and updates to license management APIs and PowerShell Act by: June 30 MC281145 | August 26 - Today, as communicated on Tech Community, we are providing a reminder that the end of support for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Graph will be on June 30, 2022. Apps using Azure AD Graph after this time will no longer receive responses from the Azure AD Graph endpoint. Since the Azure AD Graph APIs are being retired, we are also retiring the license assignment operation in the MSOnline and Azure AD PowerShell modules.Note: If you don't use Azure AD Graph API, do license management through... View more (Updated) PowerApps/PowerAutomate Retirement of Direct Links in the OneDrive for Business Connector Act by: September 25 MC280012 | August 26 - Updated August 26, 2021: We have updated this post for additional clarity. Thank yo...